• Book World, the Nation, the Barnes & Noble Review, and the Daily Beast. Tom LeClair grew up in Vermont, got his AB from Boston College, his MA from the University...
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  • literary genre named by Tom LeClair in his 1987 book In the Loop: Don DeLillo and the Systems Novel, and explored further in LeClair's 1989 book, The Art of...
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  • acceptance speech by Vollman, introduction by Andre Dubus III, essay by Tom LeClair from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog, and other material.) "The Bumbling...
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    Retrieved March 16, 2010. Leclair, Thomas; Delillo, Don (Winter 1982). "An Interview with Don DeLillo: Conducted by Thomas LeClair". Contemporary Literature...
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    Teeth, The Corrections, 2666, and 2005 dopo Cristo by Babette Factory. Tom LeClair had previously coined the term systems novel in his 1987 book In the...
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  • which has poisoned the groundwater. Writing in the Washington Post, Tom LeClair compares the book favorably to The Recognitions by William Gaddis, saying:...
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    itself, and because of this their novels are often encyclopedic. As Tom LeClair argues in The Art of Excess, the authors of these ʺmasterworksʺ even...
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  • Retrieved 2019-12-25. New York Times review A Lecture on Mao II by Tom LeClair DeLillo’s Mao II by Mike Dell’Aquila, Construction Magazine (May 22,...
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  • Vineta (ed). World Authors, 1975–1980 LeClair, Tom. "An Interview with Joseph McElroy", Anything Can Happen, Tom LeClair and Larry McCaffery (eds.), 1983....
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  • career of one of the most admired and admirable writers of our time. Tom LeClair, reviewing the work for the New York Times, considered that the work...
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    Anything Can Happen: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists (with Tom LeClair), which helped identify the major innovative authors associated with...
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  • as the Trojan War", but he also calls the book "sly and resourceful." Tom LeClair calls it a book of "obvious excess" and Steven Moore places it in the...
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  • 1987 book-length study of DeLillo's works up to that point, however, Tom LeClair lauded The Names as DeLillo's finest work. David Cowart said the same...
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    The book was shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. In response Tom LeClair described him as a "young and British Thomas Pynchon." It was also shortlisted...
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  • interview (republished in expanded form in Anything Can Happen), writer Tom LeClair wrote that McElroy acknowledged rereading, intimating he was influenced...
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  • worth the effort. — Bruce Allen, Library Journal, 2/1/1975 Tom LeClair 1978 interview, in LeClair and McCaffery (eds.) Anything Can Happen (1983) Stade 1975...
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  • bequeathed by Pynchon et al." The most extensive critique came from Tom LeClair, writing in Bookforum, who found the first half of the novel to be "a...
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  • novel", a term coined by Tom LeClair who applied it to writers including Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth and Ursula Le Guin. In Staes' usage, "systems...
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  • Gaddis on his style. In an indirect reply to a query from the critic Tom LeClair—in which he confirmed that he uses a pseudonym—Dara denied having read...
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  • turn out like your father, that should be good enough for anybody." — Tom LeClair, 1978 Interview McElroy seems to have released a private mystery into...
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  • bible (although Gaddis does not use that term). Some examples here Tom LeClair 1978 interview, in LeClair and McCaffery (eds.) Anything Can Happen (1983)...
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    of Paris, 1930), Le Million (1931), À nous la liberté (1931), I Married a Witch (1942), and And Then There Were None (1945). René Clair was born and grew...
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    Thrones actor is . . . Tom from Coalville". Leicester Mercury. Retrieved 3 March 2019. Schrodt, Paul (15 February 2019). "Tom Hopper From Netflix's Umbrella...
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  • entice us into an epistemology, a “calculus cure” for reductionism .... — Tom LeClair, The Daily Beast McElroy forces the reader to work in order to highlight...
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  • Neloy Ogden Phipps 1:10.40 1967 Subpet Ray Broussard Warren A. Croll Jr. Tom LeClair 1:10.40 1966 Great Power Bill Shoemaker Edward A. Neloy Wheatley Stable...
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    marry Tom Brady's sister". Yahoo! Sports. Associated Press. Archived from the original on February 10, 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2012. Clair, Michael...
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  • beetles and those noses (and the title)", Seligman reports. Reviewer Tom Leclair notes light in various flashy appearances: God said, 'Let there be light';...
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    Sir Thomas Jones Woodward OBE (born 7 June 1940), known professionally as Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. His career began with a string of top 10 hits in...
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    play their home games at Clark-LeClair Stadium, named after donor and alumnus Bill Clark and former coach Keith LeClair. Every year, the Pirates host a...
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    Publishers. ISBN 9780517550571 – via Google Books. Leclair, Tom (September 25, 1983). "LeClair, Tom. "A Reconstruction and a Sequel." Sunday Book Review...
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